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Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Sin is not only manife...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily li...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place i...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3....
MORTIMER J. ADLER

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read be...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love...
MORTIMER ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as...
MORTIMER ADLER

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients ...
MORTIMER ADLER

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involv...
MORTIMER ADLER

Love without conversation is impossible.
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We ar...
MORTIMER ADLER

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession o...
MORTIMER ADLER

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be cons...
MORTIMER ADLER

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but...
MORTIMER ADLER

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the o...
MORTIMER ADLER

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that m...
MORTIMER ADLER

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
MORTIMER ADLER

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
MORTIMER ADLER

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things oc...
MORTIMER ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live...
MORTIMER ADLER

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity
MORTIMER ADLER

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do no...
MORTIMER ADLER

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligibl...
MORTIMER ADLER

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop in...
MORTIMER ADLER

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why the...
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER ADLER

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself
MORTIMER ADLER

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
MORTIMER ADLER

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER ADLER

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not ap...
MORTIMER ADLER

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.
MORTIMER ADLER

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith w...
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After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild de...
MORTIMER ADLER

We love even when our love is not requited.
MORTIMER ADLER

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
MORTIMER ADLER

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
MORTIMER ADLER

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself,...
MORTIMER ADLER

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
MORTIMER ADLER

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, wi...
MORTIMER ADLER

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how man...
MORTIMER ADLER

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that ...
MORTIMER ADLER

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
MORTIMER ADLER

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or ...
MORTIMER ADLER One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscio...
MORTIMER J. ADLER AND CHARLES VAN DOREN

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e...
EMILY MORTIMER

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
JOHN MORTIMER

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide...
MORTIMER CAPLAN

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
MORTIMER CAPLAN

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitiv...
JOHN MORTIMER

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; ...
MORTIMER COLLINS

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which th...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
JOHN MORTIMER

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
JOHN MORTIMER We just have to keep doing what we're doing. We're really playing well right now. We have to keep it...
ANDREA MORTIMER We definitely play well together. We're good friends off the court, too.
ANDREA MORTIMER Sometimes it changes your mentality a little, but I try not to think about it. I just still try to p...
ANDREA MORTIMER It's surprising. I really wasn't expecting it. It's cool that Bethany and I both made it. It was a g...
ANDREA MORTIMER It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the fi...
EMILY MORTIMER I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to ...
EMILY MORTIMER I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of o...
EMILY MORTIMER

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his...
MORTIMER COLLINS

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
JOHN MORTIMER

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an...
JOHN MORTIMER I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
EMILY MORTIMER

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life wh...
EMILY MORTIMER

Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastr...
JOHN MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
JOHN MORTIMER

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
JOHN MORTIMER

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are co...
JOHN MORTIMER

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wis...
MORTIMER COLLINS There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
MORTIMER CAPLIN Office life taught me to be tolerant, lazy and a good gossip.
BOB MORTIMER

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Vic, have you farted?
(Vic: No).
What, never?
BOB MORTIMER

Children can spot pomposity, insincerity and self-regard a mile off and are the best possible antido...
JOHN MORTIMER

Champagne socialist
JOHN MORTIMER I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In smal...
JERRY MORTIMER You have a tough crowd to please. If you arrive with something that doesn't piss anybody off, then y...
RICHARD MORTIMER As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries ...
IAN MORTIMER The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was al...
EMILY MORTIMER Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretendi...
EMILY MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
JOHN MORTIMER Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - y...
EMILY MORTIMER I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, mo...
EMILY MORTIMER We must have given them eight points on second chance shots.
JERRY MORTIMER It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
EMILY MORTIMER

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin...
EMILY MORTIMER Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
EMILY MORTIMER I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
EMILY MORTIMER I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that...
EMILY MORTIMER I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more...
EMILY MORTIMER To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaning...
EMILY MORTIMER 51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad...
EMILY MORTIMER I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live ...
EMILY MORTIMER I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a c...
EMILY MORTIMER Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that...
EMILY MORTIMER I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
EMILY MORTIMER Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcup...
EMILY MORTIMER I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy...
EMILY MORTIMER My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they b...
EMILY MORTIMER This strategy has a lot of teeth.
JEFF MORTIMER If you share too much, the world will copy you.
JEFF MORTIMER People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as...
JEFF MORTIMER The surprise of the quarter was really the strength of small-cap market when most pundits were sayin...
JEFF MORTIMER Schwab Hedged Equity has a core belief: There is an upward drift to the stock market.
JEFF MORTIMER

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do
RAYMOND MORTIMER

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who ...
ALAN ADLER The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world r...
ALAN ADLER The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness wor...
ALAN ADLER ... The most important thing right now is the crew's safety.
ALAN ADLER It's a long event. This is only the beginning.
ALAN ADLER GM takes no position on the matter.
ALAN ADLER There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the Unit...
ALAN ADLER extremely sensitive to variation and can result in different ratings in the same vehicle, such as wh...
ALAN ADLER We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.
ALAN ADLER Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.
ALAN ADLER

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealt...
FELIX ADLER

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
FELIX ADLER

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
FELIX ADLER

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of ...
FELIX ADLER

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement...
FELIX ADLER

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
FELIX ADLER

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...
FELIX ADLER

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
FELIX ADLER

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, an...
FELIX ADLER

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
FELIX ADLER

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
FELIX ADLER

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, ...
RENATA ADLER

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
FREDA ADLER

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those t...
FREDA ADLER

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but ...
FREDA ADLER

That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the h...
FREDA ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest ...
FELIX ADLER

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of th...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good...
FELIX ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas,...
ALLAN ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.
ALLAN ADLER This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them bec...
ALLAN ADLER They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use...
ALLAN ADLER In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U....
ALLAN ADLER The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has mark...
ALLAN ADLER When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any sig...
ALLAN ADLER So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directl...
ALLAN ADLER

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript...
FREDA ADLER

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply...
RENATA ADLER

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go...
FELIX ADLER

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the he...
FREDA ADLER

Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, o...
RENATA ADLER

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

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